Where does “evaporator” come from?
Evaporator comes from Latin evaporatus, the past participle of evaporo, meaning to convert into vapor or steam.
evaporator (English): A piece of equipment used to evaporate the...
Definitions
- A piece of equipment used to evaporate the...
Ancestry of “evaporator”, step by step
evaporator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English ‐or
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ‐or | Creates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines or parts of them) that do the verb or part of speech with which they are formed |
| 2 | Middle English | -our | — |
| 3 | Old French | -eor | Alternative form of -or |
| 4 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 5 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via English evaporate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | evaporate | to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous... |
| 2 | Latin | ēvapōrātus | evaporated |
| 3 | Latin | evaporo | I evaporate |
| 4 | Latin | vaporo | I steam, reek; I smoke, fumigate |
| 5 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |